Galis 2 Side A

The cassette is a TDK D60. It is the second part of an interview with Klaas Wilhelm Galis (25-11-1910 – 2-7-1999) in Zeist on 23-3-1989. Klaas Galis studied Indology in Leiden and then became in 1936 a civil servant in the Dutch Indies and was placed in the Benkoelen in Sumatra. During the Second World War he was in a Japanese camp and after the war he was stationed in Manokwari and Fakfak in Dutch New Guinea.  In 1951 he got a job as civil servant for the “Kantoor voor Bevolkingszaken”, the social scientific research office of the government in Hollandia and a post as teacher in the administrative school. In 1955 he got his promotion on the thesis Papoea’s van de Humboldt-Baai, Den Haag, J.N. Voorhoeve.  He wrote many articles and reports on ethnological, linguistic and historical subjects. Mentioned should be his Bibliografie van Nederlandsch-Nieuw-Guinea. Den Haag, 1962 (derde verbeterde en vermeerderde uitgave). An English but reduced version was published in 1984 in collaboration with J. van Baal and R.M. Koentjaraningrat as West Irian. A Bibliography, Dordrecht, Foris.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

Side A is 31’36 and Side B is 31’36

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